Hello, Andrew Daugherity wrote on Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 06:18:43PM -0500:
> Because I was curious, and Brian Conway had replied that this dated > back to the very first commit of OpenBSD in Oct. 1995 > https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/df930be708d50e9715f173caa26ffe1b7599b157/etc/netstart#L29 > when it was > forked from NetBSD, I went looking through the NetBSD history. > Evidently support for /etc/my{name,gate} and /etc/hostname.* was added > in Apr. 1993, just before the release of NetBSD 0.8 > https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/80e5f01ba42eb7e7bc57b9dfe71a889ab11f995c Continuing the timeline backwards: July 19, 1993 FreeBSD: Rodney W. Grimes adds myname(5) and mygate(5) support commit message: "From NetBSD, copied verbatium. May need some work yet." https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/0a71fe69 This tells us that none of this came from FreeBSD. Apr 20, 1993 NetBSD 0.8 release Apr 02, 1993 cgd@ commits myname(5) and mygate(5) support to NetBSD Jul 14, 1992 386BSD 0.1 release There, /etc/netstart uses /etc/myname (but not mygate) https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/blob/0.1/etc/netstart Appears to be based on SCCS revision 5.9, but with modifications March 1992 386BSD 0.0 release; it uses neither; SCCS revision 5.9 https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/386BSD-0.0-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/etc/netstart So 0.0 is apparently based on Net/2 (5.9) without modifications. Aug 20, 1991 4.3BSD Net/2 release; it uses neither; SCCS revision 5.9 June 1990 4.3BSD-Reno release; it uses neither; SCCS revision 5.9 OK? Ingo Index: mygate.5 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man5/mygate.5,v diff -u -r1.2 mygate.5 --- mygate.5 17 Oct 2021 13:20:46 -0000 1.2 +++ mygate.5 28 Mar 2025 13:35:11 -0000 @@ -82,5 +82,9 @@ .Xr netstart 8 , .Xr route 8 .Sh HISTORY -This manual page first appeared in +Support for the file +.Pa /etc/mygate +first appeared in +.Nx 0.8 +and this manual page first appeared in .Ox 3.4 . Index: myname.5 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man5/myname.5,v diff -u -r1.12 myname.5 --- myname.5 1 Jul 2021 01:16:13 -0000 1.12 +++ myname.5 28 Mar 2025 13:35:11 -0000 @@ -64,5 +64,7 @@ .Xr hostname 7 , .Xr rc 8 .Sh HISTORY -This manual page first appeared in +Support for the file +.Pa /etc/myname +first appeared in 386BSD 0.1 and this manual page first appeared in .Ox 3.4 .
